Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation

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ISBN-10: 0226532321
ISBN-13: 9780226532325
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publish Date: 09/01/1995
Dimensions: 8.88" L, 6.16" W, 0.97" H

Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation

byW J T Mitchell

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What precisely, W. J. T. Mitchell asks, are pictures (and theories of pictures) doing now, in the late twentieth century, when the power of the visual is said to be greater than ever before, and the “pictorial turn” supplants the “linguistic turn” in the study of culture? This book by one of America’s leading theorists of visual representation offers a rich account of the interplay between the visible and the readable across culture, from literature to visual art to the mass media.

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Details

ISBN-10: 0226532321
ISBN-13: 9780226532325
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publish Date: 09/01/1995
Dimensions: 8.88" L, 6.16" W, 0.97" H
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